The Surat police have busted a racket involving the theft of high-value chemicals from trucks and their replacement with soil. Two persons have been arrested in connection to this case, the police said on Thursday.
The Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested five people from different states of the country who were accused of cheating working-class people by promising them jobs abroad, police said on Thursday.
Ranjit Cheeta was the mastermind behind the smuggling of 532 packets of heroin, which were seized by the Customs Department at ICP Attari in July 2019 and are being investigated by the NIA.
The team that busted the visa racket and apprehended the seven accused consisted of DCP Ankit Singh, ACP Prabhat, and Inspector Virendra, said Delhi Special CP (Crime).
DGP Punjab Police, Gaurav Yadav in a post on X, said, "Big Blow to Trans-Border Narcotic Network: SSOC Amritsar has busted a cross-border heroin smuggling racket and arrested one person and recovered 12 Kg Heroin."
An interstate drug smuggling racket was busted by the Special Operations Team (SOT) of Malkajgiri zone, along with the Keesara police, in Telangana's Medchal-Malkajgiri district along with the arrest of three persons, officials said.
Pune Police arrested two women from Nashik on Thursday in connection with drug mafia Lalit Patil case and produced them before the Pune Sessions Court which sent them to police custody till October 23. Police detained both the female accused on Wednesday evening and presented them in the cou
According to senior officials, searches are underway at around 50 locations, including Kolkata, Gangtok, Siliguri, and other locations since last evening. A senior superintendent of Passport Seva Laghu Kendras (PSLK) in Siliguri, along with a middleman, has been apprehended.
In a joint operation, the military intelligence unit (Southern Command Liaison Unit) of the Army and Pune city police have busted a fake recruitment racket and apprehended a man for allegedly defrauding 42 youths for Rs 1.8 crore under the pretext of recruiting them into the Army, the offici